I provide interactive displays suitable for historic sites. I will provide a fascinating insight into the plants and gardens of bygone times. Whether you wanted to appear more beautiful, relieve pain, improve a meal or kill a few rats, there were plants for every need. With the largest collection of early gardening tools in the country, I can set up a display of tools, plants, and potions, or even demonstrate the use of the tools on your own site.
There are lots of things that children can try, such as washing their hands with soapwort, making pills and scaring the birds - and usually everybody else can have a go too!
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Learn: Why you will die if you dig up a mandrake?
What you use an alembic for? Why you wouldn’t want a Woad dying factory next door? Why the EEC won’t let you scare pigeons from your crops like they did in the ‘good old days’. How to save money by not going to the expensive apothecary to cure your ills.
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Why you needn’t spend hours making smelly soap when you can grow your own?
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Use a watering pot.
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